Dell To Acquire Ocarina Networks

Dell Inc has announced that it has signed an agreement with San Jose-headquartered Ocarina Networks to acquire the company. The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.

Ocarina Networks operates in the domain of optimization technology for heavy-duty storage. The company’s offerings have the potential to free up 30% to 75% of existing storage capacities, releasing network bandwidth, power, cooling, data center space and management, resulting in CapEx and OpEx savings. In today’s business environment where data is largely unstructured, the company’s technologies can make a significant difference.

The acquisition of the company will allow Dell to integrate Ocarina’s products into its existing deduplication solutions portfolio.

Ocarina Networks was founded by Murli Thirumale in 2007, who was its CEO at the time of the acquisition. The company had been a vendor for Dell for over a year. Post acquisition, Dell plans to invest in further engineering and sales capabilities of Ocarina, and would not immediately move the company’s operations from its present premises. The present management team is also likely to remain intact.

Read more about the latest acquisition of Dell in storage technology domain, here.

Dell Launches Precision M4500, A Mobile Workstation

A new mobile workstation has been rolled out by Round Rock, Texas-headquartered Dell Corporation. The workstation is called M4500, and is touted by the company as the most powerful in the world in its category.

The M4500 is targeted at professionals such as creative artists, designers, simulators, animators, engineers and research scientists. It is also expected prove useful to users from government defense who need to work in the field and yet have adequate security such as authentication and data encryption.

A salient feature of the workstation is that it is built upon Intel Core i7 processor (Extreme Edition). The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 graphics card is embedded in the system by default. It is the first mobile workstation in the industry with this level of power. Dell is offering the M4500 with the other options of Intel Core i7-920XM Quad Core processor Extreme Edition and Core i5 processors, and NVIDIA FX880M for the graphics.

The M4500 is optionally offered with a 3MP camera and Gobi 2.0 mobile broadband support.

The mobile workstation also comes with an optional SSD minicard for additional data storage.

Read more about the latest launch of computing gizmo from Dell, here.

Two New Computing Machines From Dell

Round Rock, Texas-headquartered Dell Inc has launched two new machines this week.

The first is a laptop christened “Latitude 13″. The second is a mobile workstation called “Precision M6500″.

Latitude 13 incorporates features such as remote management, optional integrated Webcam / microphone, and internet connectivity, along with desktop virtualization through certification from Citrix and VMware. The laptop can be configured to operate in non-standard computing environments such as call centers, hotels and regional offices, due to the virtualization-ready design. The laptop comes with solid state drives and trusted platform module (TPM) control software.

Precision M6500 is touted by the company as “the world’s most powerful mobile workstation”. The system comes with a choice between Core i7 and Core i5 dual core processors, and another choice between 1066Mhz, 1333Mhz and 1600Mhz memory RAMs. The workstation supports all versions of Microsoft Windows as well as Ret Hat Linux 5.3 64 bit. The M6500 has a screen display of 17″.

Precision M6500 is the only machine, according to the company, which offers optional RAID 5 and three internal storage devices. This gives the user the freedom to connect storage drives whose capacities cumulatively go up to 1TB.

Read about the latest gizmos unleashed in the market by Dell, here.

AT &T To Provide Communications To Dell Mini 3 Smartphones

Dallas, Texas-headquartered AT&T Inc has entered into an agreement with Dell to carry communication signals for Dell’s Mini 3 Smartphones.

AT&T is the second-largest provider of wireless service in the US, with its current base of nearly 82 million wireless customers. The company has a total customer base of over 150 million.

For Dell, the arrangement with AT&T is the latest in the series of such arrangements that the company has been entering into over the past few months, including China Mobile, Claro (Brazil), Vodafone (Europe, Australia, New Zealand), M1 and Starhub (Singapore) and Maxis (Malaysia).

Mini 3 smartphones are based on Google’s Android Operating System. The company is banking on AT&T’s largest Wi-Fi hotspot network and fastest 3G network to entice customers to buy the device.

Smartphones are fast becoming the flagship product for Dell, as research after market-research shows a forthcoming boom in the market with more and more customers opting for high-tech devices that can enable them to tweet from where they are, and connect with facebook friends while on the go.

Read more about the latest tie-up entered into by Dell to increase the market reach of its fast-becoming-flagship product, the Smartphone, here.

Alienware M17x Laptop From Dell

The recently-concluded CES 2010 show in Las Vegas saw Dell announcing the release of a new set of laptops. One of them is the Alienware series of laptop meant for gamers.

Alienware comes in three different models, corresponding to their screen sizes: M11x, M15x and M17x. The M17x model has the largest screen size, with two options of 17″ WideXGA+ sporting a resolution of 1,440X900 / 900p LCD monitor and 17″ WideUXGA 1,920X1,200 / 1,200p LCD monitor. Typical of Dell, there are a number of options for the other laptop’s features as well, which ultimately decide the price that the piece can be bought. So the Video Card can be either of Single 1Gb GDDR3 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M, or SLI Dual 1GB GDDR3 GeForce GTX 260M / 280M. The laptop can come fitted with any of Intel’s Core 2 Duo or Quad processors (from P8600 to T9800 to Q9100). The system runs on DDR3 RAM with clock speeds selectable from 1,067 Mhz or 1,333 Mhz; and hard disk with capacity ranging from 160 GB to 500 GB spinning at 7,200 RPM.

The laptop measures 2.02 inches (H) X 15.98 inches (W) X 12.65 inches (D), and weighs from 5.3 kg onwards. The price tag begins from USD 1,699 onwards.

Read more about the latest line of gaming laptops released by Dell, here.

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